Corn-cutter.



G. S. ELLIOTT.

Patented Oct. 15, 1912.

Inventor,

Attorneys.

GEORGE S. ELLIOTT, OF MOBILE, ALABAMA.

CORN-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 15, 1912.

Application filed January 12, 1912. Serial No. 670,922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. ELLIOTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mobile, in the county of Mobile and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Corn-Cutter, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject-matter of this application, is a cutter, of novel and improved form, adapted to strip the grains of corn from the ear, and to extract the juice which lies adjacent the periphery of the cob.

The invention aims to provide a corn cutter including a body of novel and improved form, adapted, at once, to receive the hand of the operator, and to receive the ear of corn, so that the body may be reciprocated longitudinally of the car.

A further object of the invention is to provide novel means for assembling the blade with the body, and to provide novel means for advancing and retracting the cutting edge of the blade, with respect to the earreceivlng groove.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the invention in perspective; Fig. 2 shows the invention in perspective, the same being inverted from the position shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a fragmental longitudinal section; Fig. 4 is a transverse section; Fig. 5 is a perspective of the blade; Fig. 6 is a sectional detail enlarged from Fig. 3; and Fig. 7 is a transverse section showing a modified form of the invention.

In carrying out the invention there is provided as a primary element, a body 1, the same preferably, although not necessarily, being fashioned from a bar, the cross section of which is curved, and approximately circular, in order to accommodate the hand of the operator. In one face of the body, and extending longitudinally of the same, is a channel or groove 2, adapted to receive the ear of corn, from which the grains are to be cut. The channel or groove 2 is concaved, so

as to receive the ear, and to maintain the body 1 engaged with the ear, upon relative longitudinal movement between the body and the ear.

Extended through the body 1, intermediate its ends, and disposed at an acute angle to the longer dimension of the channel or groove 2, is a slot 3. At one end of the slot 3 an inclined seat 4 is formed in the body 1, transversely of the body. There are slits 5, projecting into the body 1, beyond the slot 3, adjacent the rear wall 10 of the slot. Slidably mounted in the slits 5, at an acute angle to the groove 2, is a blade 6, the cutting edge 7 of which is eoncaved, to conform to the concavity of the channel or groove 2. The blade 6 includes an angular-1y disposed, resilient flange 8, adapted to overhang the seat 4. In the flange 8 there is an opening 9. As shown most clearly in Fig. 6, the flange 9 bears against the seat 4, adjacent the free edge of the flange only, as shown at 11, the remaining portions of the flange 8 being spaced apart from the seat 4.

An adjusting member, preferably taking the form of a screw 12, is threaded into the body 1, through the seat 4, the screw 12 being adapted to engage the flange 8 as will be readily understood. When the screw 12 is rotated, to enter the body 1, the headed portion 12 of the screw will engage the flange 8, and press the same down against the seat 4, with the point of engagement 11 as a fulcrum, the elongated opening 9 per- .mitting the necessary relative movement between the flange 8 and the body portion of the screw 12. Obviously, this manipulation of the screw 12 will serve to advance the cutting edge 7 of the blade, so that the same will be positioned properly with respect to the groove or channel 2.

In Fig. 7, a slight modification of the invention is shown. The body 14 remains of the same contour as before, the blade 15 being mounted in the blade, in the manner hereinbefore described. The blade 15 is equipped with a longitudinal slot 16 which, in the present instance, is located in the body proper 15, instead of in the flange thereof as before. An adjusting screw 17 passes through the slot 16, and enters the rear wall of the opening in which the blade 15 is slidably mounted. The blade 15 is equipped with an outstanding flange 18, whereby the blade may be engaged by the finger, and slid. Obviously, the screw 17 constitutes-a means for holding the blade 15 in adjusted positions.

A cutter constructed in accordance with the present invention, will remove the grains of corn from the ear with great rapidity, the milk or juice, lodged in the periphery of the cob, being removed with the grains. The device is adapted primarily, although not exclusively, to be used for stripping grains of green corn from acob.

Owing to the fact that the flange 8 is resilient, and owing to the engagement between the flange 8 and the seat 4, as shown at 11, it will be understood that as soon as the screw 12 is loosened, the cutting edge 7 of the blade will be retracted automatically.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A corn cutter comprising a body; a blade slidable in the body, transversely of the body, the blade including a resilient, angularly disposed flange, engaged at its free edge only with the exterior of the body, there being an opening in "the flange; and an adjusting member extended through the opening and engaged with the body.

2. A corn cutter including a body provided with a transverse slot, there being a seat in the outer face of the body, at one end of the slot; ablade slidable in the slot and including a resilient, angularly disposed flange engaging the seat adjacent the free edge only of the flange; and an adjust-- ing member extended through the flange, into engagement with the body.

3. A corn cutter comprising a body, curvilinear in cross section, to accommodate the hand of the operator, there being a concaved longitudinally extended groove in one face of the body, there being a slot extended through the body, at an acute angle to the groove, the slot being provided with slits adjacent its rear wall, the body having upon I GEORGE s. ELLIOTT.

lVitnesses:

WM. M. EANES, W. M. EANES, Jr.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C.

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